Escada Acte 2 Escada for women

Does anyone else sense a little pepper (not necessarily pink) in this?? Could I be so wrong? Other than that, I'm actually liking this, but I agree, it's not WOW or anything, it's just a pleasant enough, safe and feminine office scent with a hint of fun and zest but all in all very forgettable. Not Escada's greatest accomplishment, for sure.

Sillage is decent enough, longevity rather disappointing, though (3 hours on my skin).

Starts off with prickly citrus top notes, and goes on to become a generic fruity-floral plastic scent with the same synthetic, harsh-woody base and aquatic notes used in so many low-end commercial perfumes. The green citrus and aldehydic notes might be nice were it not for the loud drugstore-clone medley that goes with them.

As it dries down, there appears a sort of a green tea note, which is not spectacular, but an improvement. With time, it gets sweeter, eventually drying down as a pure, moderately sweet fruity-floral. The bottom line is that Acte 2 smells almost exactly like every other fragrance in its genre. It has too much sillage and lasts way longer than it needs to. I like some Escada perfumes, but will probably not be wearing this one.

My story is similar to PASSIONATA20's.
I had to have this perfume just because i loved the bottle, then it was a blind purchase and when i smelled it it was nothing like i imagined it to be... and no, i detect no rose here! it's not right with my skin chemistry and it's too much orris i think.
well, as i said, not what i wished for...

I really liked the bottle and a huge fan of classic Escada, but this one is simply not for me.
Recieved today a bottle of EDP and it smells nothing like i imagined it would smell like.
It was a blind buy.
It is fresh and yet it is bitter with some notes that just don´t suit me well. I think it is tangerine combined with freesia or orris that disturbs me and it is too green to me. I absolutly don´t feel any rose notes in it. But either nor "cat urine" as someone wrote before. It is really just too green and too fresh. Really good to be used as a body mist by the way!
It is just not my type of fragrance, but it smells actually quite nice on my mom.
The best part of it, that it lasts very long both on me and my mom.

Please do not remove this comment, since others might find it useful. Not every rewiev should be positive, so people like me wanted to make a blind buy might find it very informative. Thanks.

I dissagree!IT is a faint scent.Doesnt slap u in the face in the am!THe tangerineand orange play off each other.slowly,fressia,rose,mimosa,and lovely orris root blend into a soft batter that lasts several hrs.the dry down is like a dessert.cedar swirled with sweet vanilla and cinnomann DO make ur mouth water.No remarable changes in notes,just smooth good smelling fume the whole time.I see rthis more as a day scent ,any season.Lil fruit,lil spice,lilwoody undertone.good for all!

ESCADA ACTE 2 is either very bad--akin to a mixture of burnt plastic and rotten fruit--or else my bottle has transmogrified into a toxic chemical soup. Either way, a caveat emptor is in order.

Some fragrances hold up well holed up in the back of dark closets and armoires; others do not. But even if the juice is not what it used to be, the number of reviewers, including myself, who bought ESCADA ACTE 2 years ago but never used it would seem to suggest something significant...

plastic plastic plastic PLASTIC! This has to be the Public Enemy no 1 of all
perfumes EGGGGGGGGGGGH I don't know how to Describe this Sjanira is right it does smell like Urine it made me gag
so just now that i dumped the sample in the toilet and throw the cap away
if someone is thing about buying it
DON'T!

I like this one. Very feminine, in a cheerful, solar way. It's also sweet, but pleasant, innofensive, still appropriate for daily use.
I have a 4ml miniature bottle of this. The funny thing is it has gone bad, but it doesn't smell bad at all! lol It kind of turned into a body splash: very herbal and fresh, but won't last much more than an hour on skin. It really smells like Mate herb, a very popular plant in Brazil used to make tea, especially iced tea. It's funny how it's really similar now, and it smells good! Hmmm... I feel like a cold drink!

I had this when I was 19-20 years old. This scent reminds me watermelons. So fruity and sweet.

10 years it was my #1 signature scent. Love it! I always recieved a ton of compliments when wearing it. It's a scent for the night out, for the night club, dancing. You will be noticable in every crowd with this perfume. I still love it, but I found L'Instant by Guerlian and it got my soul. Escada Act 2 now is waiting for the return on my dressing table:-)I'm pretty sure I'll come back to it. Recently I met my old girlfriend on a facebook (haven't seen her like 10 years) and her first words to me were: I remember your smell! Escada...

I've got a miniature and the scent is pleasant. May be it's because the scents in miniatures are sometimes better than in the big volumes especially in the old miniatures like mine seems to be.

I like most Escadas perfumes but this one smells like urine to me. It has a very bitter raunchy smell.

I'm guessing that the tester I have of this is off....all I'm getting is a thick, treacley mead scent!!!

I like this one very much. On me it smells fresh, but at the same time sophisticated; it's hard to describe it, but in no way I'd call it as "sweet". The note that is most dominant on my skin is freesia and orris, drying down to sandal and vanilla. For me it's No 1 summer scent;)

I do have it, and tested it on today after many, many years rest in a box. It was gone bad (you don't want to know how it smelled today!). But in it's primetime this one was little like Chloe Narsisse, but more lighter.